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Towanda, Pa., March 4, MO. JOAN W i t CODDING,. , Arroalirr.A.T.law, Towaxia, PA. Mee over Etrbrs Drug stare. ro MAS E. MYER A . I7OIIItiVAT.LAW, TOWANDA. Pk. :Mew with FIUME had Voile. [BECK & OVERTON eT011111LTS•Al I.IIW, ' a TOWA.NDA, rA. D'A. Ovraircnt, BsCa. ODNEY A. MERCUE, ATTonsisT AT-LAW, TOWANDA. PA, • Solicitor of _Patents. Particular attention paid to business to the Orphans Coart and to the settle ment of estates. Office in Montsnyes Block May 1, 'TS. OVERTON & SANDERSON, ----- ~ '—iertozNvf-Ar-Lwor, • TOWAND4I, PA. ; Ovitiros. J*. - 'iOUN P. SANDINRON W . H. JESSUP, ATTOILIZT AND COIINSILLOIL-AT-LAW, MONTROSE, PA. Judge Jessup haring resumed the practleeet the law In Northern Pennsylvania, will attend to any legal business Intrusted tablet In Bradford county. Persons wlshlng to consult hlm, eau call on H. Streeter, Esq., Towanda, Pa., when an appointment can he suede. HENRY STREETER, irroarrirr cotrwest.t.os-AT-LAw, TOWANDk,I'A. ?ea 27.72 E. 14. HILLIS, ATTORNIT-AT4. kW, TOWANDA, Pk. E. F. GOFF, ATTOZ NET•AT-LAIN WYALUSINO. PA. Agency for the sale and purchase of all kinds of &scarifies and for making loans on Real Estate. , All business milt receive careful and prompt attention. Onus 4.111710. W- H. THOMPSON, ArroglaY • tS, Law, Wrst sa, pa. Will attend to sit barmen entrasted:to his rare in Bradford, Soilless and Wyomisg Counties. Ocoee with lA. Porter.. Roam E. BULL, SVAVEYOII6 ENQINEZR/NO6 SURVEYING AND DIAt'RINO. °thee with G. P. bland, over Patch t They, Main street, Towanda. Pa.i , 4.16.80. GEO..W. KIMIERLEY, - ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, TOWANDA, PA. - • , Andithoe ehatt reef: When thou ut eagerly. Dittlrahq sin* AS rise tar irld. iirest lint ti} satt - Have pierced thy trio el. Wy presence ill, around thee and about tbeep-. Thee pet pet . But if thoileeweik. Wieuielido*PtilediWPt met ToWANDA,"A. I love nos so. Thou att a very eIIIIII, oaf modest gaidta met itietaigtitihir Sep.Ss,lll Cno'grll.7s. L. ELSIIIIRS. (feb.l`7B. TOWANDA, PRIMA IMMEMMM k .1 _ 0.~~~~, M!IMM .:, - -.:1"...', - -..'' ,- ,•-:.i.. ME 1 . COQOOICN & .1111TCIICOCIC.: Publishers. _. „. . VOLUME - TTI' '• , . .. : . . . . . . .„ • _.. . • . .. _ . . . .. . ~... . -.:- : _ - TOWANDA,-. BRADFORD . ..09UNTY, . PAi r _TIIMVIDAY... _:1101000,--.DEMTBELH ki, 188 p , • . • .. .. CIE REST. • i.,lrkee I yip ..• . kaotheiintdo tn!it4 S t0D,41414 - Net know. thywoetl; , Lean on me. ehlld—nor retail beneath thy sighing, With help eo near ; I Wl* upon me alt thy viekinsd dying - To UM thy rese t • When thou art resting In raj secret dwelling.' Shadowed by me. Thou shalt not the of listenin g--I of telling- , _ love for thee. . Thine eyes me bent open each lowing token • Sent by my baud ; With these alone ihy spirit would be Molten In thy fair land., Thou art a bier of all things or beauty IA earth and pence ; • Theta, moils. nate thy Plaasure and thy duty, ?belt soiree to trsee • • • •—• • ' ' Back to its source ; See all the blooming growth , thy toot la pressing:l:. Alonglts course.. . '• See, gathered in thy itarebnitse of sweet drodiing, Each glowing thought. • Which daylight, starlight, br, the unser, sweet gleaming • - To thee have brought. All real beauty which - thy heart Is greettng—ii . In thishar ressis— , - AU Musk *hick Utzehirased ear 41 meetlat4' From me bad birth. But this will be revealed when thou art leaning 17pon my breast; Thy soul shall comprehend my bidden meanl4 And thon shalt rest. f` Why He Did Not Run Away Twenty years ago Peter Raymond owned • a hard, stony firm, eighteen miles from Hartford. One. Septem ber evening,about nine o'clock,as he was returning, home. from a neigh bor's, he suddenly recollected that ' he bad lett his bridle hanging on 'a bsr-post, by his sheep-barn, when he turned his old white mare into pas ture that afternoon. He sprang over the wall and across the lots, hoping to secure it before any greedy-mawed bovine shOuld make it forever useless for bridle purposes. As he drew near, the turn be thought he heard 'voices' inside.. What any one should be there for, he could not conjecture. He stepped lightly as he could on the unmowed rowen and slipped in ' behind the door which was standing ajar. and listened.' • Philip, his eldest son, , ,was s there, and Clinton Dexter, a son of the man at whose house be had been to call. The lads , were abont•of an age —‘bent fifteen. Philip was talking when his father went uplo the harn,, but he finished .what he was saying . just as Mr Raymond got Into a posi tion to catch the words, and young Dexter commenced to reply. He said : " Well, Phi 4 my father is just as inconsiderate as your father is. I don't think he remembers he was ever a boy.. There is scarcely arddy in the year he doei not ride out—he rides more'n he used to before he was selectman, and you may be sure that be always has something on hand to be done, just as your father does. Soon as the.frost is out of the ground, in the sfirivg, be tells me , before he rides off that I may pick up stones or spread manure till it is time to milk and fodder. After that time plowing and planting. A little later in the sewn he tells me to hoe the potatoes, or weed the garden, till it is time to get up the cows ; and if he is at home when I take up the pails to go-out and milk, he always tells, me to be sure and strip the cows clean, jrst as. though he thought I should be lazy and dishonest enough to leave half the milk in their bags if he did not tell me so ; and be would be just As likely to tell me before visitors as any way—makes fellow feel mighty uncoinfortable, you know. In the winter- have to chop wood most of the Itime that I am not in school ; andi don't think my father feels quite satisfied if I don't chop as ' much as. a full-grown man could do in the same time I didn't know till the other. day just how it was with you. Phil, I don't wonder that your ;patience has worn' out, and. I assure you that I am quite as tired of living in this way as you are." " I'hesitated a goad while, Clint," Phil replied, ‘ before I decided to speak to you about it ; but I made up •my mind in haying4ime that it. was the last • summer that I should stay at home and help hay it and fare as I 'did then. Father is always ready to find fault—he generally says when be gets home, '1 ,don't think that you have hurt yourself working to-day; Philip!' And sometimes be asks me if my back doesn't ache, l',ve -chopped so much or hoed so mueb, d, no matter if . .I work as hard na can, from sunrise till' aundirriiil Inter bear anythingmore .01i:11111g ing—never get one wont of praise. I feel sorry to clear out on my moth er's account. I love her and I be lieve she r loves me ; but if father loves me be never shows itr,—never speaks a tender, loving wor.i to me. My mind is fully made up,'Clint. I am going to ran, away, and I want to get off to-night. Never mind about your eloOes—l've shirts, hand irerchteti and stockin a enough pnt bp and I'll divide wi ;you until we `can earn more) Last week I thought it over and thought it would grieve mother, so I pretty much decided to give it : up; but I 'get's!, provoked. the day father went to Hartford, I determined that I would go any Way.' YOU Ne t here I've lived ever sine •I ' was born, within eighteen miles of Hartford, but I never iris there, ilor in any other city. I asked , father if I might go with him last June, wbea be was going, and? he said\l couldn't go very well then, - but I -Mould go with him the very firsttimehe.went after haying. Well, when he `spoke of going.laat Week, I asked him ithe was going to take me along -and he answered pretty crabbedly: I No,' sir; pretty time tothink of going when the hired roan is ganef' I told' I him / would get you to come and REIMMEINI Earn the choreic' and 3ou would be a kithful in doing thee at lkwould "be; but he wouldn't heM a word about it. I didn't feel very light4eatted alter he was gone, but I tried to brace it out the best that I could, find I work ed hard all day. =That afternoon Was a dark, cloudy afternoon, and I got up the cows and milked them a. little earlier .t h aw :t supposed .I did, but don't think the sun wail five minutes high when I got the chores done. I took the_newspaper and sat down in the doorway pop to be on hold to take;,eare of the horse when Ihther came, and I bsiln't read a quarteriof a column wheci he drove tip. Well,. Clinton, as true ' as I live and breathe, after'his promising that I should go to Hartford with him the first time that he, went after haying, Ord then breaking his word and leaving me to work hard all day, the first thing he said to me when be (hove up was : What are you sitting there a read. Ing for? Why aren't you doing your chores I' It galled ma, I tell you, but I - told him that the chores 'were all done, and he said : ' 0, ho, that. is it? Yiin do the chores in the mid die; of the afternoon when I am gone, and then sit down and read, do you It was confounded cutting; if he had stuck a knife , into me it , wouldn t have hurt we any worse. I vowed then I would see Hartford nn my birthday, and I-shall be much inis taken if I am not there to-morrow morning, and if my tither sees: me again for a year he will see nsore's I think he will. I , will be at the barn just, at midnight. My bundle' of clothes is here now 'ln the oat-bin. Don't MI to Pe on time, Clint. We must get a single glimpse of the city before the steamboat' goes out. 1.1 don't know what the fare is to New York. I doubt if we'lkaie money enough to take us there. It we haven't we can stop at some of the landing places on the way." , Wilt: variety of feelings Peter, Rayiniond bad in the fifteen minutes he stood behind that barn door and listened I At first be was utterly surprised, he could hardly;: believe Us ()Wit ears; but as he took it all In ~—as he comprehended what his..son contemplated doing, he was in high dungeon ; he unconsciously clenched his fist tightly. • He could hardly re frain. from 'pouncing upon his son then and there an& eying him a sound diubbing ; but he decided that it, would be wise to heatt the boys' talk-out; and learn all their plans and' then confront them. But as Philip I talked on Raymond's teeth were less' firmly closed and his flat relaxed, and 1 when Philip said in a half .sad tone, " I doubt if my father loves me at rall," a dozen different feelings strove for the mastery. -i " Don't love hum ?" be responded to himself; "the ungrateful rascal l i Haven't I been scrubbing along as; savingly as possible and privately putting little sumo in the savings banks so that I - Could send him away in a year or two, and give him a bet ter chance for an education than I ever had ? _Haven't I often said 0 my friends that he was' one of the most faithful, trusty boys in the world ? 'and that I could leave home any time, day' or night, and never ,worry about things as long as he was :there to take care? If he does doubt my love, up to this time I have' loved him and have been proud of him. - I haven't been very demonstrative about it, to be sure. I never thought it was wise to pet and, praise chil dren. Perhaps I have been's little too unsocial and bold and straight laced with him. _ Maybe I'd better I not let him know I've heard this talk about their running away ; but I, I shall of course do something to pre -1 vent their going. I'll go up to the house and think over what course to take." . • , And Peter Daymend crept away from the .barn as though he was a speak thief, and huriied; home• as fast st 4 be could, not once thinking of his While. He bad bardlkgot seated in the big arm chair before Philip came in. Philip expected his father would say, gruffly : "It is high time you were in bed." And so he was quite taken by ' surpriee when he said, gently : , " Won't you hand me the almanac before you sit down, Philip ?" Philip's mother raised 'her eyes from her sewing and glanced, at her husband as though she wondered what bad called forth such unusual gentleness. Raymond opened the almanac at September, and after glancing down the page he turned to his wife and asked : "Is to-day the third or fourth Tuesday of the month ?"' ' "The fourth," she replied. "To morrow is the last day of the montP."l " Are you quite sure about it 1" he queried. "If you I are correct, I am a week behindban& in my reckon ing I've bad so many things crowd-, ing upon me lately, I've hardly known which way to tarn first. I promised Mr. Skidmore thit I Would take the two.years-old heifer away that I bought of him before the first of Oc tober.. She must he got home to morrow." • . -Philip got up to go to bed. Mr. Raymond said: - • " Don't hurry, Philip. I'm think ing bow to get that heifer home. I believe I will take you down there early in the morning and leave you to - drive ber up.'lt is nine miles there, but you can come back leisure ly and let her feed alongside the road. You'd like it as well as to stay home and work, wouldn't you,-Philip 7" " Ye ' sir." l Pbili replied in an absent-minded way. i was in - a quandary. Per hags he had better try to stay at home a little longer and see if things didn't seem more agreeable to him. Maybe he bad judged his father a little too harshly. -Clinton Defter would come to the barn at midnight, Philip-was arrested in his cogite, Lions by his father saying: - 7; . "1 - have so many cares, so many things to think of that I can hardly keep track of my children's-eqrs., 1 believe,Tbilip, your birthday Comes the thirtieth day of Septenffler, doesn't'it?" ,1 . " Y,ett, sir." 4 And so you wig Oltenia ye4w 1- IMES ICE ME IREI old, to-morrow; • it 'iioes beat all.bow the time tam -Mite* years! -It doesn't, aeon : more than halt that time since you were a baby; Let me see, I believe .I: promised let yo* go, to 'Hartford this WI, dhint I t We shall be hilt way there when we get to Skidmore's; seeing toinori row is .your birthday, perhaps we bad. better keep on, I &MI, know as we shall have any better , time to leavej, .We eanotiut—have breakfast at. halt put ftve, and get or by siX, and by i nine; if we have good loolkwe shall , be there. We can stay'- .there till three otellok In the afternoon, and; then you Wouldn't White home. It will , be light to-morrow evening— there is -a good moon now. Well, you may as well go .to bed and get, allrthe sleep that you can. I "shall caltyou up at four o'clock." -Philip started the second time to go, but just as he got his band on the door latch, his fathet said: • "Wait a. minute, Philip. If you hid some one to keep you , company from Skidmorels and help you drive the cow, I wouldn't mind staying till midnight before we left the 'city. •Perhaps Clipt_Dexter would be will- 1 ing to walk up from , there with you . and help you drive her, if he could go with us to Hartford and spend the day. If you think that he would, and you would like to have him.go, you may 11/1I over -to Mr. Dexter'sl and tell him if- it is amvenient for him to spare Clinton, I would like to' have him go to Hartford with us to morrow, and walk home from Skid more's with you in the evenitg. And be "sure to tell Clinton, if his father i consents to his going, that we will call for hi as early as six o'clock." Philip said: - "Yes, sir," and took up his hat and went into the hall ; 1 but before he got to the Outside door, his father called out : "One thing more; Philip. I left' my,bridle hanging on a bar-post down by the sheep-barn thlit afternOon. If you'll come back acrosilots and bring' it up, it'll save going for it in the morning. I intended to get it myself, when I came home frolif Mr. Dexter's, but it slipped my mind." .1 1 "Lucky thing it did," Philip said to himself as he stepped out of the Aoor.• " If he had come around that may and heard Clint and me talking In that barn, I guess' he wouldn't be An so gentle a mood to-night.: He would have given me Hail Colum bia,' right and left, and Clint would have fardd worse than I ; - for when his father's lack is up, he's as savage as a tiger. Strange what has come over father to-night I I noticed that mother was surprised to see him so much more- social and gentle than c0mm0n.7,.. On his way over •to Mr. Dexter's Philip had a great variety of feelings suit's's great a conflict with them as his father had whihrstanding behind the barn-door ; but, before he got there, the summing, up was, that he , was an ungrateful scamp and that his father was all right, only he had so many, cares and anxieties that it, sometime made him "a` little stern and crabbed. MEE MEM MEE ENE Mr. Dexter was ready to oblige his neighbor Raymond, and he cheerfully gave his consent to. Clinton's going. Clinton didn't know what to make of this sudden turn of affairs. As be went with. Philip to the door, he whispered : • "'What's up. l Phil ? What has hap penedl Has your father found out anything ?" ".Not a thing not a thing," Phil lip hurriedly whispered.back. "You don't suppose, Clint, he'd be taking us to Hartford to-morrow if he had ? It's all right, but it's the strangest' thing that ever happened. tell you all about it to-morrow, can't Say long,enough now Mr. Raymond took up a newspikper and bowed his bead over it as soon as his son started for Mr. Dextee t. s, but if his wife , had observed him closely she would hive seen that he did very little reading and there was a troubled expression on his minute nance. He did not raise his eyes from the paper when he heard returning footsteps, but he listened very intent ly and he knew that Philip stole soft- ly and hurriedly to , the back end of the hail and opened the chamber-door before he came into the sitting-room. A look of relief came over his face and he straightened op as if a great burden bad been WWI from him. He , had no doubt that the bundle of clothing bad been brought up from the oat-bin and left on the chamber stairs' till Philip should go up to bed. That is what he hoped his boy would do when ho asked him to come around by the barn and get the halt er. He had no fuither fear thit he would attempt to give hiin the slip that night. Mr. Raymond and Philip rode up to Mr. Dexter's door for Clinton the next morning, just as the sun was peeping over the hills- It :was as de lightful a September morning as they cold desire. As soon as they were well on the road, Mr. Raymond said: "Nuts boys, you must keep your eyes open—see all there is to be seen and get all the enjoyment out of going that you ,can. We don't have holidays very often sod' we must make the - most of them when we do have them. Philip and I have work ed pretty has* lately , and I guess,' Clinton, you have. I believe a play will do us all g o od. I made , up my mind, this morning s _ to try and leave all my cares sad business !,hind me, for once; so ' yon may ask me al many questions as you wish and, you netd have no fears that it will dis turb- me at It did not maps Mr. Raymond's observation that' his remarks caused the lads to . glance at each other in blank astonishment, ind it cut him to the qiiick. "What kind of a father have I been,":' he : _asked.himself," "not to be able 'to spilt a few civil and kind words to my son without having it received with such surprise. Poor boy , I Wonder, pleasure, guilt and -grief are all =depicted in his countenance today. Alter this, with God's helps Pil so uunine that he'll never doubt my loving hink—never plan toran away from his father's house again.." Mr Raymond spired no pains to t haveibe boys enjoy .their first trip to = - • -- 4' • 4 A r ; • ‘ 4 ; - • t , , AYS* *Waft inanwiale 07 . , ,Hartford.' Ile, mad. tbeir attestlei to everOdnit Ot t *IWO% *oat intasst ilms their way. Re telt them*liircrised au& ink such a ferat-whente wee alaw.wbst toi land' was, mei* ad acre thee; mid i *hat was Its marketvidee tiow.wboi built-this hotesetoand that;-- _and , bei *W pointed where '. elelifind .--, ‘nuil born, and where Mononlie -- lived! tilthelrent- to, college.. Me was . .' less painstaking when they got tot* city. -..He took Shell, past * Trinity. College, the State time, the Sigh School le : pointed ont the different ,churches and told who peeled in! them; -. he went with thank to - the Athenteum and spent an 4ur - witli them there. . ] _ .1 Sometimes Philip looked at hirr fiither t in dumb bewildamrnrt, won 4 doing . if they 'were , teeny hi, Hareord, or if it. ;were all a dream: ;How social and Interesting Mild was! Ile felt as if he was ileVer 1 101 j quaintedwith him before." What What I lfi ,delighthrl time be shotdd ve if be had not been planning to do some mean thing. ' If father kir wit bort he would despise , him ; he . ooked at him so earnestly sometimes; be was afraid that he saw guilt in his counte4 name. It be could only get up the Courage he would confess the whole, to his father and Implore his Only-, Hess. Thus the day wore away and Phil; Hp was not sorry when it was timetci start for borne. After Mr; Raymond; bad left the ,lads to follow on with; - the heifer they talked over the events of the past twenty-four hours togeth:-: er. and they were both decidedly of, the opinion that they hada verynar tow and providential escape fermi committing at very &space, ful 'act; and they both a,greed, after a little', discussion on that point, that they would never divulge to any human being that they had ever' dreamed of running away. • It' Wasindf-past nine when" Philip droVe , the heifer into his father's, barnyard. After he had his supper; his father asked him .to step out to the shed and get alackage that - was under the svagon-seat. When he brought it, Mr. Raymond opened it and took from •it t 4 Webster 'a Una bridged Dictionary," -arid sat dow n' and wrote on the fly-leaf: " Presented to Philip C.' Raymond on his fifteenth birthday, by his father. Peter Raymond," and then without closing the' book passed it over to Philip. - Philip could bear no more. The tears that 'had comez,lo his eyea twenty times had been , . forced back now overflowed his eyelids and razi down his cheeks. - He stammered. "Yon amino kind i to me t father; I do not deserve this." aDo not deserve it,' Philip!" ex. claimed Mr. Raymond, with apparent "I think you'd better leave that to my judgment. I should like to hnow what boy does not deserve the kindness from his, father if yoa don't? If I bad a dozen sone Leonid not ask them to be more faithful and' industrioai than you hays been: There, there ! don't shed any more teat* over it--you're tired better go to bed is soon as you can, so as to feel fresh in the x 'morning._ If it's a good daY to.m6rrow we must secure that rowen."- 44 Thank you, father," Philip aid, with a quivering voice; and went im mediately. up-stairs. If had been a little less overcoming to himself, he would have noticed that his hither's' voice was a little shaky; and if he hadlooked back as he passed out of the door he would have seen 'his' father haitily brush a tear or two from, his own eyes. Henceforth there was no lack of confidence, sympathy and affection , between Mr. Raymond and Philip,; and, by reason of a private interview: that Mr. Raymond had with Clinton' Dexter's father, Clinton's life was; much more agrmtble than heretofore.. Philip has always looked back to; his fifteenth-birthday as a remarkable! epoch in his life; and be never ceased' —until his aged father recently visit ed him and heard him speak rather ; t harshly -to his own little son—to; marvel at the wonderful change that' came over his father, himself or both; at 'that time. Then his father told; him the whole story, and cautioned, him against growing into the habit of speaking in that way to his chkld " Always remember, Philip," be , said, "that crustiness and nnhappi-. new are no more agreeable to &child's, feelings than they are to a grown! person's, and that they aremqre ly to lead any one out of the right: path than into it, and that they never, will forgo love." Soma particularly withusiastio! young Barnumites, alias Connecticut. Democrats, employed by a large , manufacturing .company of Water bury chalked 329 all over_ Abe door' before election. The hoed was a Re publican, but he said nothing shout , it at the time, only. s he managed to; find out who the chalkers were. The day after election he .came into the : fackiry, summoned ,all who had par thipated in the figuring and ordered them to fortn in line on the floor, as he was going to organize a broom brigade. He armed.. them . with brooms, buckets, cloths and sera.- bing brushes, telling them he was going to have them celebrate Grat;%. field's election. He appointed him self captain, and told them they were now to march and wash out all the dirty work they lutd been revel ling in for the past six weeks. Some of it didn't wash out easy, and they had to work .two • hours with cold water and sand to remote all traces of the chalk marks. They won't chalk any in 1881. As expectant nephew, took upon me side the physichm ‘who visited his "uncle, and demanded' to know the whole truth concendag that be lovedirelatim "Be s ts dying!" mdd the doctor. The nephew howled with piteous lamentations. But the old doctor who knew human Aniture, and expectant nephews in • pardmdar, ex: claimed ; ".You misunderstood me! I did not may he was recovering—l said be 'is dyieg l" ZIOMMM MMI = =II 1 -.. - ...-,... : ; ;; -: , ..1 7 . .-, : ::,.. :; :: ::: , , ,,,. vp:-',.:1• 7 ' ' - ; -- ;•!..;-;. , 7.,::' , ... -,,-. ME . ME =I ,?!: A ;:*nomedo,!l;,xixtibl!idii4 num) sosmosiWLoB; 111111HOUL . Colonel Ingersoll says he keeps all pockethOok In an open drawer, and bis Call'Ullo go $O4. help to along whenenr they went it; They. eat. when - they want to; , they may sleep all dtiy if theychosse c and dt tip" all night if. they ; desire. on't 47 to coerce. them. : . never Punish, never scold. They buy their, own clothes and are masters of them.: staves:, • • A gentlemen living 011 Marshall sk, who lmea boy that is AM - as hitter - 1y as Lai father, read the edicts' and pondered deeply. 'ilia "knew - that Qolaaesl Inwsoll enema, at chiUnm in the, way they'', should go, and he thought he wouhl try it. The boy bad causes him vow! sid,erableannoyatice, and be made Up his mind that he had not treated the boy right, so he celled, the boy' from the street, where he was p* tang softesols,_ pon a lamp - post in or; der, to see the lamp-lighter ellinb it; and said to hintF • "My son, I have decided to adopt different Course - with you. Hereto:, fore I haveilleen litlellll about giving you money, and hive wanted td know where every-cent went to, and thy supervision has no doubt heed annoying to you. Now I'dk going 10 leave my pocket-book in the banal drawer, with plenty of money in it, and you are at libeity to use 4500 want without asking me. I want yod to buy anything you desire . to; buyl your own clothes feet as thouge the money was yours, and that poi had itotgot to account for it.- Just, make yourself at home now,. and try And have a - good time." •_ The boy looked at the old' gentle4 .man, put his hand on his: head act though he had. "got 'em sure," and went out to see the lamplighter climb that soft soap. The next day the stern,parent went out into the counJ try. shooting, and returned on the midnieht train three days liter. He opened the door with a latchkey, and ,a strange yellow dog' gabbed him by the elbow of his pants and shook him, be said, "like the agar." Ttie diog barked and chewed until the son Came dcian in his night-shirt and called him off. He told hislathr: er he had bought that dog of a fire man for $1 I t and it Was probably the beet dog bargain that had been made this season. He \sold the firemad told him he could Sid a man that wanted that kind of a dog. - The.parent took -off his pants; what the dog bad not removed, and 'in the halt he'stumbled over a biretki bark canoe the boy bought of*ldj dian for $9, and an army musket; 'with an iron ramrod, fell down from the cother. The boy had paid:s6" for that. He bad else bought him self an overcoat With a sealskin col lar and Cuffs Inds complete outfit of calico shirts and slikettocklegs. In his room-Abe parent found,. the marble top of i *ode_ fountain, a', wheelbarrow, and dithelf filled with' all kinds of canned meats, preserves and crackers, lied a barrel of: apples.' A wall tent and six pairs'ef blankets were rolled .up ready for camping out, and a buckskin , shirt,.anda pair of corduroy pants lay on the bed' ready for pulling on. Six fish-poles' and a basket: NI of fish-lines were ready for business, and an oyster-eat full of grutmrorms for bait were squirMing on the washstand. The old gentleman looked the lay wit over, locked at his pocket-book In' the bureau drawer, as .empty as a' contribution.box„.and said; "Young man, the times Lave been' too flush. We will now return to a' specie basis. • When you'want money: come tome and I will give you a‘ nickel, and you will here tai. tell me' what you intend to - buy with it or I'll warm you. You bear me ?" —' From: the Springfield Republican. The Same Old Game. The other afternoon the tools, plements; fixtures, apputtetumee end , ,whatever else belongs to W game o croquet, were, pit in position on a. lawn up Woodward avenue, and seal young lady and a young-- man wbo, seemed to be her lover, took up the mallets CO start the balls,* bony-look ! lug old tramp halted and leanelpn, the fence and got his mouth pucker; ed up , for something good. The; young man took the first shot, Mid, before the ball ceased rolling the . girl's voice was heard calling:. " You didn't knock - fair—you've , got to try it over." Before either of them were half/ way down she had 'occasion .to remind him that .be wasn't playing with a blind person, and that she could overlook no cheat. ing. As *she went under the last arch he felt compelled to remark that her playing'would rule her out of any club ever. heard of. On the way-back she asked him why be couldn't . be an honest matt as well as a jockey and a falsifier, and he inquired why. she didn't write a set of rules to tally . with her style of playing. , " It's coing—tain't five minute's off""; chuckled the tramp as he too a new grip on the fence and shaded his eyes with his bat. "Don't yen knock that bail away 1n shouted the girls min ute after. ". Yes, I will!" " Wet jou dare to.". - "l'm playing accord lug-to the rules." No, you arn'tl You've cheated allthewaythrotigh.7 "I never Cheated once t" ""And ST you sae' adding the crime of perjuryl Sir, I dare not intrust m3r future hap. piness to such a man I cotdd'never trust or believe in you I" "Nor lln you Pi "'Then let , us part fanner!" she aid, as she burled her millet at, a Mane dog - . ;"So I"he him ed as he flung his at , ber eleeping poodle. She bowed and darted for the bouseta pack up his littera. Be raised his-hat and made for an ap proaching. street ear to get down town in,time for the Toledo train. " That's'all I wanted Ur - know ' " sigh ed the tratnp,_as be ' turned away. "Iv'e been out in the woods for a fevi years past, and I didn't knew but what there bad been some change, made in croquet, but '1 .see it's' the oame old game clear throughl" l -,De. trait Free Press. • , , NEM 11611 '' ' ' :l7'' '' ;4' ..' ' C' .. . • - .-7,."..'.....--;.1;,...(,..,%4:',14 ...,:.''''-'..'•''''' ' . 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Meld s trfild Wilder How II Magas tar the pow: Like s von st wiry Aloar. jleimest co the mut of woke. 1167atellieg, Unless. for the finless Ag 4 tba lIIE 1. crtm and mat, Oh, the naming wolf at 'Hato, Outlaws, e* tons taw 0, the ievesNamideg law, ' 0f the love thc*lasfa, bare , For Alie poor —astO that 'cadre .. blabs loortiathetidooi. - . • Ob. the ramie, welts? winter— , Weald ye bars Ides harts away? 11141 him. awl be steal obey; - Valle ye the maddviss arse On the hearthstones et the humble While the Intipds strike their Vies. - -Y C. Iw the Philadelphia North Americas: One or the "peers." She was about forty-five years old, well dressed, had .black hair, rather tlan and tinged iith' gray, and eyes 4d which gleamed :the fire of a deter nhMtion not easily balked. She walk bito Major House's office, and re (pleated priimte interview, and have ign satisfied berielf that the kW Mndents.were ncit listening at the keyhole, said Skiivly, solemnly and impressively : • "I want a divorm" "What for? I supposed ion bad one of the best of husbands V! said the Major. "1 epos°, -that's what everybody thinks, but It they knew what I've suffered in ten years they'd wonder I hadn't scalded him long ago: I ought to, but for the sake of the young onea I've borne it and said noth. ing. I've told him,. though, what he might depend on and now the time's come. I won't stand it, young ones or no young ones_; I'll have a ' di. vorce, and if the neighbors want to blab themselves Wane about it they , can, for I won't stand it another day." " But what's the matter ? Don't your husband provide for you ? Don't he treat you kindly ?" matted the lawyer. - - "We get victual' enough, and I don't know but what he's as true and kind as men in general, and he's never knocked none of us down. wish be had, then I'd • get him into jail and • know where he goes at night," retorted the woman.- 'Then what'sthecomplalut against him - “Wa if you must imow, he's one of them dratted poem' - A'what ?" "A jiner—one of ttem pesky fools that'salways jiningsomething. There can't nothing come along that is dark and= sly and hidden,. but he'll jine it. If anybody should get up a society to burn his house down, he'd jine it just as soon as he could •, and if he had to pay for t he go all the suddeoer. We hadn't been married More than two months - before be jined the Know Nothing's. We lived on a farm then, and every Saturday night he'd come tearin' in before suppe4greb a fist hill - Of nut cakes, and go off gnawing !emeand , that's the last I'd see of him-,till morning. And every other • night he'd roll and tumble in.his bed, and holler in his sleep, q'td, none but Americans on guard--George Washington;' and rainy days he would go out in the Urn and jab at 'the picture of the Pope id* an old baguet thatewas there. - I ought to put my. foot down then, but he fooled me with his lies, that the Pope's coming to 'make aIL the Yankee girls marry Irishmen and to, eat up all. the babies thatices , -Wt. born with, a croon on their forehead, that I let hini go m sad encouraged him in it, / "Then he jined tbe Masons. Per haps you know what they are, but 1' don't spect / ttey think they are the lame kind'oreritters that built Solo. i inon's Temple and took care of his concubines; end pf all the denied' nonsense And gab about worshipful masters and squares and compasses and such like_ that we had in the house, for the next six -months, you. neveffseen the beat. And he 's never ontgrowed it nutter., What do you' think of swan, 'Squire, that'll dram bisself fn a white apron, t 'bout big I enough for a monkey's bib, and go [ marching up and down, and making motions, and talking the foolisbest lingo at, a picture of George Wash ingtonin a green jacket and a truss on his stomach? Ain't he a loonytic ? Well, that's my Sam, and I've stood it as long as I'm going to: 4 "The next lunge the old fool made was the Odd 'Fellows. _ I 'made it warm for him whe be came home and itold me he'd jined them,but be kinder pacified me by telling me they bad a sort of branch show that took in women and he'd get me in as soon ss ,he found out how to do it. Well, one night he said I'd been proposed * and somelmdy bad black-balled me. Did it hi melt of course. Didn't ' want me around keowing of his rtzh0,....0: co u rse be didn't an d "Then he jined - the Sons of Mal tee. Didn't say nothing to me about it, but sneaked off one night pretend in' he'd got to sit up wities sick Odd Feller, and I'd never found it out; only be came hem( lookin' like a man that hid been through a thresh ing machine, and I 'wouldn't do , a thineor 'him till he owned up. , And [ solt's gone from bad to was and from wus to wooer, 'fining this, that and t'otber, till he's Worship Minis ter of libason.s, and Goddess of Hope of the Odd Fellows, and Sword Swat lorr of the Finnegan*, and Virgin • Cerus of the' Grange, and Grand Mo gul of the Sons of Indolence; and Two-Edpd Tosnahawk of the United Order Of Black-Men, and Tablebear er of the Merciful Manikins, and Skip cif the Guild Catherine Coltun., and Big Wiper& the' Arabi an igiits, ankPledge-Psuser of the Reform Club e and Chief .Bulier of the Jewish , Mechanics,' and Purse •100 Dor Annum In Advaner. :. NVMBER2B Keeper of the Cansdhus - Coosciane end Dotaide Barreled• Doctor of Knights of the Brass . Circles, a Eitandud Ikater of thelloyal• singe* and Sublime Porte of the On ion League, and Chambermaid of the Celeitial Cherubs, and Puissant 1 1 / 4 0 fea st. of the Petrified Piptitickers; and heaven only' knows what else. I've borne it and borne it, hophe he'd get 'em ell' jived after a while, but lain't no' use and when he'd got into a new one,. and beers made Grand Guide of the Knights of Horror, I told him I'd quit, mulcl will." Here the major interrupted, say. ing: Well, your husband is ' pretty, well initiated, that's , a fact; but the court will hardly call that a good cause for a divorce. The most of the societies you mention are compa of ;honoraria men, and have ribellent reputations. Many of them, though called lodges, are relief associations and mutual insurance companies, which, if your . huiband 'should die; would take care of you, and would not see you suffer if you were sick." "See me . suffer when I'm sick Take we of ..me. when he's dead WIL rlefebot; I can take care of myself when he's dead, and if I can't I can, get another. There's plenty of 'em. And they needn't bother them selves when I'm sick, - either. If I went to be sick and suffer, it's none of their business, especially after the sufferin' I've had when I ain't,sicki became of their carrin's on. And you needn't , try to make me believe Ws all right, either. I know what it is to, live with sr man that jinea so many lodges that be' don't never lodge ; at- home - , and signs his name; Yours, truly, Sam Smith, M. M., L 0. 0. 8.,11. of P, P. of H. H., R. It. A. H.„ I. L P. K..of X., N. C., L. E. T., H. B. L P., X. Y. ete. - ; . " Oh, that's harmless amusement," remarked Mr. Housej She 'looked at him square in the eye and said I believe you 'are a jiver your self', _ iII admitted he was to a certain extent, and she arose and said : " I wouldn't have thought it. A man like you, chairman of, a Sabbath schaol and superintendent of the Re publieturs. It's enough to make a woman take pisen. Bat I don't want anything of you. I want a lawyer that don't belong to nobody or neck. in'." And' she bolted 'out of the office .and inquired +re Captain Patton kept. • MEM liZil WI =lll The Old Blue Chest. One day last week five or Mx woo men with serious faces and hushed voices were gathered in a room in a house on Fort street'east. For two years a poor old WOMall had lived there,' not exactly a beggar nor an object of charity, bat certainly in want. She bad a' husband when she first moved there.,-a poor old, man whosedays could not be long; but one day be was missing. - He may have Mien into the river, or he may have wandered out into the country and died. This left the old woman alone, and there were days, andtdays in which no one went near her or ad.: dressed her. The other day when she felt the chill of death- approach lug_ she wanted someone with her. She had lived alone, but she could not die that way. She wept when tender hands clasped hers and kind voices addressed her. Death had already/placed ,its mark on-her face, and the women could do nothing. Whileetheir tears fell upon her wrin kled hands she - passed away as a child sleeps. • . There was but little in the rooFa beyond an old blue chest—battered and bruised and splintered, but yet holding. It had seen strange times; that old blue chest. It bad held silks and broadcloths perhaps-=it - 'bad surely - held rags. It had been moved • from house to house and from town to town. It had listened to laughter, and had beard sobs and moans. It had grown old no faster than the wo man who had so often lifted its lid. It bad doubtless kept the company Of good, carpets and furniture and crockery, and laughing, romping children had climbed over it or hid- den in it. IS had &did; and its hinges were rusty and wcak, but it had outlived its owner. , The women looked _about for gar meats in which to enshroud the dead. Nothing was in sight. One of 'them lifted the lid of the old blue chest, and called the others to- help drag it out from its dark Corner. It held treasure—such tresaure as men could not buy nor -poverty steal away. There, was a dress of fine material, cut after a fahlon of long years ago. For twenty years the chest had been its guardian. It would -hive sold for a few dollars, but though the gnaw ings of hunger bad come often and the cold had fought its way to her Marrow, that poor old woman would not part with that, relic of better' days. It may have been a link to connect her with , wealth and love. Beneath it wag treasure stilt more, priceless. Carellilly wrapped -in paper was a silver dime more than fifty years old. A week's faet--sirould not have sent her to the baker's With that relic. A child, dead. In Its young years, had worn that dime around its neck as a gift-or talisman. There WIN a child's mitten, stained and worn, bat a mit ' ten knit by a proud young mother for her child. It could not speak to tell the dim psukt, but it had power. As the women saw it they-covered their faces . with their aprons and wept. There was a lOy's cap and a girl's bat, both so old and faded and time oaten that, they had 'to be tenderly handled. The women looked from them to the , poor old white 'face on the bed and whispered : . " None but a good mother would have treasured these relics. She was old and poor, Nag her heart was [jinni" - ' Peeper down, u if to bat. the search of rime itseig was a lamiliar tor—a child's dumb watch. Hands were broken and gone, face scratched and case' battered, but the women ha 101,4 it as if a touch would shiver I S :3- *** "Olin Aline n 111141 * *no onnuncn ' nasi oslia tbinipio elbow lbst the long WI thohilted wow bid kb the non kliass Of And •Ni - biee — g their "‘a4444411t4 1== "1"1" that.. Vois tato...woo wept ',O.Ver'" 4o 4. mimed tiith fresh, teebetehui. • They asked the old Woe ebeetimiloeitiolig:ltaiel* might hate heen,ed to s but to s r Na OM Lad s tale lit words ss philscsa print. ?shed sore tam sa. they bent pots. old ovoribe , desdt sad y said to melt otbs- she had only told one, this Low, we , wosld hare Loved kw and WU &to likiihten. her serrellle." But shelled :gone. _Shs bad eon* and -eons as a zsraery; sad bah for the old tilos chest in:*wearier , kw would love . tared, ssid,nona-watati have sorrowed —4*koit Awe l'tnr& Not Even-the Erring arc L Porgtten. , - There is no quality of the human heart so touchingly beautiful in its manipulation. as that of pity ; pity the erring—the_ pity which ftVves and - forgets-4nd which stoops to lift• up a crushed heart, or efface a stain. We don't have ,:mtieh -of this in the pnwtice of daily life towards the living or the memory of the dead, and therefore, when it does show itself, it seems that the voice which said to the qrWg woman,pros trate on the groan "go and no wore," breaks spin on the world is commendation or the pity in the hu man heart which forgives the erring. There is in the old cemetery a grave which holds one who in life erred fearfully, and as fearfully paid the 'malty of her sin--sinning sad sor rowing she died and was laid away to bwrorgotten by those who shared the, glitter and the false .pleasure of her ; misguided life.. But pity does not pass her grave neglected. 1f good woman; with her soul filled with • Christ's charm, sad the love of :a true heart, has marked this' graiTe with a . rose stalk, which, when the birds , again sing and the flowers bloom, will stied he, fragrance over the mound with a perfume as sweet as that bestowed on _ the grave of the most- blameleis. This is charity— this islove:-this is the Christianity which Christ died to spread, because it is the pity that forgivbs.. A Missoula •vr law 13p well-kidwn lady artist, resident in ROme, relates that while standing one day -near the Apollo Belvidere,- she suddenly became aware of th preseisce of a ,country-wonuai„ The new comer; a well-W.& looking American woman, introduced herself as Mrs. Engles, of: —, Mo.,- and • then asked : . • " Is this the 'Apollo Belvidere ?" Miss H— testified to" the identi- - ty of the work, and the tourist then said : " Considerei a great Statue ?" The Interrogated. lady replied that ' it was generally thought to be one of the master-pieces of the world. " Manly beauty and all that' sort of things ?" said the liady—from the" land of the setting sun. Yes," responded the now amazed artist. "It-is said to be one of the noblest representations of the human 'frame." ." Well," exclaimed :Mrs. 'Reggie% - closing her Baedeker; and with arms' akimbo taking - a last and earnest - look at the marble, ." I've seen 'the Apollo Belvidere and I've seen gag gles, and give me Raggiee."-4.10e10n Commercial Bulletiii. - - Am - old "colored man took a tele gram' to Woodland, add., the other - day; and asked the operator to send it right :may. The operator rattled it off in a few,seconds and stuck it up on a file. Raising his head half an hour afterward, he saw the old darkey . still . standing! there , gazing intently at the file. The old darkey remarked, " I say, boss, 'hain't yer gwoine ter send dat message? very impoitant, it, mould go 'megete ly." The ope rator , answered "Why, oTd man, I 4,ent the' dispatch long ago; it's delivered long before this. " The old roan then said : "Ye can't fool dis , chile. It's not sent at all— it's .hanging np dar on de hook. I saw ye when you put it dar, an' I hasn't taken my eyes ofrn it since," and the operator had to take the message dosin and pretend to send it-411' again by practicing the alpha bet, before the old mark_would go away. • - AT the baths : A fat man opens the door of his dressing-room, enough to ga, bib head out and shouts in de spair, # Waiter, some one has stolen my- • trousers." "Impossible, sir; there must be a mistake somewhere ;- I will search fot them." After awhile he comes •bnck without them and says. " I cannot find them, sir; are you quite, sure you „brought theni with ytu • • 'Thoughtful Thought& ALL useless misery is certainly folly, and be that feels evils before they 0010111 may be deservedly censured, yet surely - to diead the future is morn reasonable than to lament the past. Sogn persons are capable of tasking great sacrifices, but few are capable of conceding how much the 'effort hike cost them ; and it is thiiconcealment tbat con stitutes their-value.. IF we daily walk those tillage 'which are true, lovely and of good Mon t tho life beyond will be the fallbunt of oar highest ambitious, the enutpktion of an we desired sad lived for bare. Dr rasing upon the fortaihhas garden that crowns some lofty bill inseosesible to um forget the traits and flamers that" are lying in profusion at our feet un .tasted and - unappreelated. - • • Taos" passionate' ponds who awry their hearts in their =oath ars tether to be pitied than feared ; their threatening' serving no other purpase than taforeatut hi= that is threaUmed. • ' ••• Tits happineiii of - your life. depends upon the quality of your thoughts; limo- Tare guard soundingly,- antEante sire that you entertain no no uneuitable to virtue and winnowed, to Datum, Iv is abeam( in tbs Bible, the fraftaet deep readiation, width las storied me as the guide of my weal mad literary life. I have found it a caplial saki, Wrested and richly productive of interest. Ora leivare hours areoman; those that have the, most impaisuice In molding oar characters. Our hours an very important, but OUT leisure haunters thous that form or tastes and oni.habits. Poona never plOt mischief when they are merry. Laughter is an enelny b m tee, a foe to scandal, and Mead to eve. ry virtue. It promotes good temPer, en livens the heart and brightens ,the Intel ket. , Ir men coosidered the hippiness of oth ers or their own ; halewer words, it they were `rational or provident, no State would be &pop's:dated, ao city pillaged, not a brim would be laid in salsa, not is farm deserted. Nicvzit wish to appear greater than you are. Above all Way _beware au. pressing: `.other _peOple's opinions se it they were your owe. That-brings ruin; it to darkness. Dare to yourself that ',will bring. _you light.' Above an tliings, be k!uniblik ' . • =ll GE